2 bedroom flat, MASSIVE bills, advise please??

md0u2199

i live in a 2 bedroom flat alone, work a lot so am not there a lot of the time, all electric and have all the normal appliances and with npower.

i have recently got my electricity bill and it has said that i owe over £1000 for 3 months usage... which I think is waay too much considering the circumstances... especially without heating, electric boiler is on a timer and only on for 1 hour during the day, i turn all the appliances off when not required etc etc

is this is a ridiculous amount or am i doing something wrong?????

Magentasue

It's a ridiculous amount for a quarter but ... is it a meter reading or an estimate? Have your previous bills been estimates and, if so, have you supplied meter readings? In other words, could you have been paying underestimated bills for some time that have now caught up with you?

Or ... wrong meter? Do serial numbers match? Faulty immersion heater (this occurs to me because it happened to me recently but I'm not sure how common it is)?

spiro

Check the 'end' reading on your bill against what the meter says now, current reading should be slightly higher. Check how much has been used between reading date on bill (assuming its an actual read) and the date you read it now. That will give you a weeks/months whatever useage figure, scale that up to a year and see what the result is average useage is around 4,300 (I think, see other threads).

brysiewysie

spiro wrote: »

... is average useage is around 4,300 (I think, see other threads).

Ofgem says average UK annual use is 20500 kWh for gas and 3300 kWh for electricity

daveyjp

In isolation a £1,000 bill for a two bedroom flat which is hardly occupied seems extortionate - our last quarter bill was about £47.

Either you have been underpaying on estimates so have a debt.
Something which eats power is constantly on - water heater would be favourite.
Your meter is providing power for something else.

Horace

I live in a 3 bedroom flat and only have electricity and no gas, my bill is £200 per quarter if that.

I hardly ever put the heating on and when I do, I have those oil filled radiators which heat up and then when hot I turn them off so they still emit heat.

I pay my bill continually by standing order and pay £26 a month. Change your provider to Scottish Power as they seem to be the cheapest.

HxBro

I've just took readings for our 2 bed flat, we used 45kWh of gas in the last 83 days, and 1673kWh of elec (I work at home so the computer is on at least 8 hours a day), we pay £66/month by direct debit and are £11 in credit. We are with scottish power online 4 tarrif

I turn everything off at the switch including the freeview box, oven and computer. I got a plug-in electricity usage reader and found that most of the electronic devices used some electricity even when off (not even in standby), the computer was the worst culprit. Turning off at the socket has saved nearly 30kWh on the last quarter

Gas wise, we have the water on for 10 mins a day, and I cook 1 hot meal a day most days, which is why our usage is low during the summer.

james6

i went round my sons flat hes bill was £550 for last quarter had to be wrong as hes been away most of the time i suggest you do what i did first check meter reading my son said i have checked it dad and informed them only trouble was he checked the wrong meter olso ask for the meter to be checked out as i have even heard of them checking the wrong meter

Francesanne

md0u2199 wrote: »

i live in a 2 bedroom flat alone, work a lot so am not there a lot of the time, all electric and have all the normal appliances and with npower.

i have recently got my electricity bill and it has said that i owe over £1000 for 3 months usage... which I think is waay too much considering the circumstances... especially without heating, electric boiler is on a timer and only on for 1 hour during the day, i turn all the appliances off when not required etc etc

is this is a ridiculous amount or am i doing something wrong?????

Are you using a tumble dryer? they are very expensive to run.

StevieJ

Horace wrote: »

I live in a 3 bedroom flat and only have electricity and no gas, my bill is £200 per quarter if that.

I hardly ever put the heating on and when I do, I have those oil filled radiators which heat up and then when hot I turn them off so they still emit heat.

I pay my bill continually by standing order and pay £26 a month. Change your provider to Scottish Power as they seem to be the cheapest.

Do you mean £200 per year?